The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations tha...(展开全部)

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations tha...(展开全部)

Duncan Kennedy is one of the most prominent and influential legal theorists of the day. This is a major effort summarizing, clarifying, and elaborating his views on the core questions of jurisprudence. Kennedy's argument is about the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decisionmaking. It follows directly and self-consciously in a centuries-old line of debate tha...(展开全部)

Duncan Kennedy is one of the most prominent and influential legal theorists of the day. This is a major effort summarizing, clarifying, and elaborating his views on the core questions of jurisprudence. Kennedy's argument is about the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decisionmaking. It follows directly and self-consciously in a centuries-old line of debate tha...(展开全部)

约翰·斯科特（John Scott），埃克塞特大学和哥本哈根大学的名誉教授，英国科学院院士、社会科学院院士和英国皇家艺术学会院士。主要著作有《公司、阶级和资本主义》（Corporations, Classes and Capitalism，1975）、《谁统治英国？》（Who Rules Britain?，1991）、《社会学理论》（Sociological Theory: Contemporary Debates，1995）、《权力》（Power，2001）和《社会理论：社会学的核心问题》（Social Theory: Central Issues in Sociology，2005）、《社会世界的概念化：社会学分析的原则》（Conceptualising the Social World: Principles of Sociological A...(展开全部)

约翰·斯科特（John Scott），埃克塞特大学和哥本哈根大学的名誉教授，英国科学院院士、社会科学院院士和英国皇家艺术学会院士。主要著作有《公司、阶级和资本主义》（Corporations, Classes and Capitalism，1975）、《谁统治英国？》（Who Rules Britain?，1991）、《社会学理论》（Sociological Theory: Contemporary Debates，1995）、《权力》（Power，2001）和《社会理论：社会学的核心问题》（Social Theory: Central Issues in Sociology，2005）、《社会世界的概念化：社会学分析的原则》（Conceptualising the Social World: Principles of Sociological A...(展开全部)

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science. For this fourth edition, Professor John Scott has cond...(展开全部)

Wide-ranging and authoritative, this bestselling sociology dictionary is the most informative of its kind. Compiled by a team of sociological experts, under the editorship of Gordon Marshall and John Scott, it is packed with over 2,500 entries. With terms taken from sociology and the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science, it pr...(展开全部)